Alastair Macdonald | Journalist Profiles |

Position: Journalist

As Reuters Bureau Chief for Israel and the Palestinian territories, I aim to ensure Reuters remains the indispensible international news source from the region, working with a team of some 70 Reuters journalists producing television, pictures and text stories from bureaux in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Gaza, Tel Aviv and other cities throughout Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In nearly 20 years with Reuters, I've been based in Paris, Moscow, Berlin, London, Baghdad and, since early 2007, Jerusalem. I have covered finance and economics, politics and wars, sport, culture and a good deal else.

Articles

Abbas offers to quit over stalled peace process November 05, 09:19pm EST

* Abbas says does not seek re-election, rules out bargaining * Says "surprised" by U.S. "favouring" Israel on settlement * Clinton says discussed Abbas's future with him (Adds U.S. comment, Abbas, Abu Rdainah quotes) By Mohammed ... Full Article

Abbas offers to quit over stalled peace process

Blog Posts

Gridlock in the Mideast

Groups of men from the refugee camp, with no obvious authority but the odd chequered headscarf or a don't-mess-with-me moustache, started forcing apart the gridlocked mess. A few thousand years after Moses and the Red Sea, another miracle in the Middle East. Full Article | Comments [1]

Back from the Dead?

We'd be far too modest to claim to have made peace in the Middle East, but... It's been a lively week down at the Dead Sea, a short drive downhill from the Reuters bureaux in Jerusalem and Ramallah. Our ... Full Article

Sounding Jerusalem

For me, the hot, dry evenings of June in Jerusalem and the hills around it have become associated with nocturnal discovery in search of musical gems. It is the time of the Sounding Jerusalem Festival, weeks ... Full Article | Comments [1]